Nina Fukuoka is a Japanese and Polish composer and performer based in New York City. She makes instrumental and computer music and uses various media and technologies to express extramusical meaning. Her works are focused on the contemporary world through the lens of horror aesthetics, video games, and feminist scholarship.

Fukuoka’s works have been premiered at numerous festivals and venues in Europe, North America, and Japan; including Musica Privata festival in Łódź, Poland; Klangwerkstatt in Berlin, Germany; Musica Polonica Nova and Musica Electronica Nova festivals in Wrocław, Poland; MINU Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark; Sonic Matter Festival in Zürich, Switzerland, Festival of Premieres in Katowice, Poland; MATA festival in New York City; and have been performed by ensembles including Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Adapter, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Distractfold, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, TILT Brass, and Nadar Ensemble.

In recent years, Fukuoka has received a commission for a new piece from the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and was invited to a residency with K!ART Ensemble in Copenhagen, Denmark. She won the Hildegard Commission for music for a short film, which premiered in March 2025 at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent piece for a large ensemble and live animation, commissioned by the National Polish Radio Orchestra in Katowice, Poland, also premiered in March. Currently, she is touring with Nadar Ensemble with her piece Yuggoth, with film made in collaboration with animation artist Izumi Yoshida.

Fukuoka completed her composition and music theory studies at the Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. She earned a DMA from Columbia University in New York, where she studied with Georg Friedrich Haas, Annie Gosfield, Brad Garton, Seth Cluett, and George Lewis. In addition to her position at Peabody, she is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Music at Columbia University.

She has been a Columbia University Gagaku Ensemble member since 2019 and has performed on shō ever since.